There is a really worrying trend that’s doing the rounds at the moment.

People are actually telling us that fruit is bad for us, and this statement absolutely breaks my heart.

Today I’m going to completely dispel the myth that fruit is bad for us.

I’m Katherine Kyle, inventor of the Green Thickie, which is a complete meal replacement smoothie containing fruit and other healthy ingredients that you can buy locally. For five years now I have been helping busy ladies completely transform their health by finding a way to fit fruit and healthy eating into the craziness of life.

Why is fruit suddenly the enemy?

I think it’s a game of Chinese whispers.

There’s a little game that we played when we were kids, and you start off whispering.

Somebody whispers something and it gets passed around in a circle, and by the end of the circle it’s something else, it means something else entirely.

I think that’s what’s happened with fruit, because the original message is refined sugar is bad for us.

Added sugar is bad for us.

The kind of sugar that you get in all packaged, processed foods, that is the kind of sugar that’s bad for us.

The syrups, the high-fructose corn syrups and the refined cane sugar, this is the stuff that really, really damages our health.

For some reason that’s been shortened to ‘sugar is bad for us,’ and then it’s been shortened to ‘well fruit contains sugar so therefore fruit is bad for us.’

That is completely and utterly wrong.

Yes there is natural sugars in fruit, but this cannot be compared to the refined sugar that’s been highly-processed, the nutrients have been removed and they’ve been added to a processed, packaged, lifeless food that’s got no nutrients in the entire food.

Whereas the natural sugars that come from fruit are exactly the right food for our body.

It might sound like a slight difference but it is actually a massive difference when it comes to how the body processes fruit and how it reacts inside the body.

It is a million times different.

It’s night and day how different the body reacts to these different types of sugar.

You can’t even say that fruit is sugar; it’s not.

Fruit is fruit.

Refined sugar is in lots of different foods, added artificially.

Fruit is just fruit, and that’s what we need to compare.

You can’t compare apples and oranges, you can’t compare refined sugar to fruit.

Fruit is the perfect package for humans.

It is exactly the way God designed it for us.

It is attractive to our eyes.

It’s bright, it’s colourful.

It’ll all the colours of the rainbow.

It’s everything that our eyes love.

When we see fruit in front of us we just think, ‘How beautiful is that?’

Have you noticed that when unhealthy junk food is advertising their products they always have to put some salad or some fruit within the product or in the background to make the food come alive?

If you look at a picture of a burger, and that burger’s brown, it’s processed, it’s just man-made mush.

What they have to do to bring it life, they had to add in a slice of juicy tomato and a big leaf of green lettuce in it and a big slice of purple onion, and that makes it look beautiful.

That makes it look appealing.

It’s not the brown burger that’s appealing to your eyes, it’s actually the vegetables that are appealing to your eyes.

It’s the same with fruit.

Trust what appeals to you naturally, trust what looks good.

Fruit looks good to us. It’s very, very accessible.

It’s easy to pick.

We just go and pick it.

We don’t need to go and chase down a rabbit or a cow or whatever it is that we’re trying to catch, we just simply reach up, grab it, and then it’s in the perfect package.

We can carry around with it all day.

It’s completely portable, it’s got its own little package, it got its skin that protects it from going off so we can eat it when we want to.

We can eat it within a couple of days; it’s not going to go off.

We don’t need to store it in the fridge.

Then when we’re ready to eat it we simply use our hands and peel it, or we just bite into it and there it is, perfect.

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